Hari Balakrishnan

96.4k total citations · 24 hit papers
251 papers, 64.4k citations indexed

About

Hari Balakrishnan is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Hari Balakrishnan has authored 251 papers receiving a total of 64.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 217 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 94 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 42 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Hari Balakrishnan's work include Network Traffic and Congestion Control (82 papers), Wireless Networks and Protocols (60 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (51 papers). Hari Balakrishnan is often cited by papers focused on Network Traffic and Congestion Control (82 papers), Wireless Networks and Protocols (60 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (51 papers). Hari Balakrishnan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Hari Balakrishnan's co-authors include Wendi Heinzelman, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Robert Morris, David R. Karger, Ion Stoica, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nissanka B. Priyantha, Scott Shenker, Kyle Jamieson and Randy H. Katz and has published in prestigious journals such as PEDIATRICS, Communications of the ACM and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Hari Balakrishnan

248 papers receiving 58.5k citations

Hit Papers

Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless micr... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2005 2002 2008 2001 2000 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks
    2005 9.6k citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  2. An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless microsensor networks
    2002 7.7k citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  3. OpenFlow
    2008 6.3k citations Hari Balakrishnan, Scott Shenker et al. profile →
  4. Chord
    2001 6.0k citations Ion Stoica, M. Frans Kaashoek et al. profile →
  5. The Cricket location-support system
    2000 2.6k citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  6. Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for internet applications
    2003 2.0k citations Ion Stoica, M. Frans Kaashoek et al. profile →
  7. Adaptive protocols for information dissemination in wireless sensor networks
    1999 1.6k citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  8. Resilient overlay networks
    2001 1.3k citations David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  9. Chord
    2001 1.3k citations Ion Stoica, M. Frans Kaashoek et al. profile →
  10. Span
    2001 945 citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  11. A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links
    1997 909 citations Hari Balakrishnan, Randy H. Katz et al. profile →
  12. The pothole patrol
    2008 824 citations Lewis Girod, Bret Hull et al. profile →
  13. Span: An Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
    2002 756 citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  14. CarTel
    2006 752 citations Bret Hull, Yang Zhang et al. profile →
  15. Energy-efficient communication protocols for wireless microsensor networks
    2000 702 citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  16. CryptDB
    2011 687 citations Raluca Ada Popa, Nickolai Zeldovich et al. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) profile →
  17. Negotiation-Based Protocols for Disseminating Information in Wireless Sensor Networks
    2002 686 citations Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  18. VTrack
    2009 642 citations Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath et al. profile →
  19. Improving TCI/IP performance over wireless networks
    1995 505 citations Hari Balakrishnan, Randy H. Katz et al. profile →
  20. Mitigating congestion in wireless sensor networks
    2004 483 citations Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan et al. profile →
  21. Improving reliable transport and handoff performance in cellular wireless networks
    1995 449 citations Hari Balakrishnan, Randy H. Katz et al. profile →
  22. A measurement study of vehicular internet access using in situ Wi-Fi networks
    2006 366 citations Bret Hull, Allen Miu et al. profile →
  23. Cabernet
    2008 308 citations Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden et al. profile →
  24. Fastpass
    2014 301 citations Jonathan Perry, Amy Ousterhout et al. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) profile →

Peers

Hari Balakrishnan
Comparison fields: 5 of 144
  • Computer Networks and Communications 57.5k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 25.1k
  • Artificial Intelligence 6.4k
  • Information Systems 5.6k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3.6k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
The Case for Decentralized Fallback Networks
2024 ·James C. Lynch, (unknown), Chenning Li, Manya Ghobadi, Hari Balakrishnan
0
2
Principles for Internet Congestion Management
2024 ·Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) ·(unknown), (unknown), Frank Cangialosi, (unknown), Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, (unknown), Ethan Katz-Bassett, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Michael Schapira, Scott Shenker
2
3
Smartphone Placement Within Vehicles
2019 ·IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems ·Johan Wahlström, Isaac Skog, Peter Händel, (unknown), Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan
12
4
ABC: A Simple Explicit Congestion Control Protocol for Wireless Networks.
2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Prateesh Goyal, Anup Agarwal, Ravi Netravali, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan
4
5
RoadTracer: Automatic Extraction of Road Networks from Aerial Images
2018 ·Favyen Bastani, Songtao He, Sofiane Abbar, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan, Sanjay Chawla, Samuel Madden, David J. DeWitt
244
6
Elasticity Detection: A Building Block for Delay-Sensitive Congestion Control
2018 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Prateesh Goyal, (unknown), Frank Cangialosi, (unknown), Srinivas Narayana, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan
1
7
Flexplane: An Experimentation Platform for Resource Management in Datacenters
2017 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Amy Ousterhout, Jonathan Perry, Hari Balakrishnan, Petr Lapukhov
8
8
Flowtune: flowlet control for datacenter networks
2017 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Jonathan Perry, Hari Balakrishnan, Devavrat Shah
44
9
Building web applications on top of encrypted data using Mylar
2014 ·IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive ·Raluca Ada Popa, Emily Stark, (unknown), (unknown), Nickolai Zeldovich, M. Frans Kaashoek, Hari Balakrishnan
1
10
Mosh: an interactive remote shell for mobile clients
2012 ·DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ·Keith Winstein, Hari Balakrishnan
19
11
Relational Cloud: a Database Service for the cloud.
2011 ·Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research ·Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones, Raluca Ada Popa, (unknown), Eugene Wu, Samuel Madden, Hari Balakrishnan, Nickolai Zeldovich
116
12
Improving wireless network performance using sensor hints
2011 ·Networked Systems Design and Implementation ·Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin Newport, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden
78
13
Not-a-Bot: improving service availability in the face of botnet attacks
2009 ·Networked Systems Design and Implementation ·Ramakrishna Gummadi, Hari Balakrishnan, Petros Maniatis, Sylvia Ratnasamy
57
14
The Case for a Signal-Oriented Data Stream Management System
2007 ·Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research ·Lewis Girod, Mei Yuan, Ryan Newton, Stanislav Rost, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan
27
15
Memento: A Health Monitoring System for Wireless Sensor Networks
2006 ·Stanislav Rost, Hari Balakrishnan
100
16
CarTel breakdown →
2006 ·Bret Hull, (unknown), Yang Zhang, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden
752
17
Detecting BGP configuration faults with static analysis
2005 ·Networked Systems Design and Implementation ·Nick Feamster, Hari Balakrishnan
220
18
Improving web availability for clients with MONET
2005 ·Networked Systems Design and Implementation ·David G. Andersen, Hari Balakrishnan, M. Frans Kaashoek, (unknown)
55
19
OverQos: an overlay based architecture for enhancing internet Qos
2004 ·Networked Systems Design and Implementation ·Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Ion Stoica, Hari Balakrishnan, Randy H. Katz
149
20
The Aurora and Medusa Projects.
2003 ·IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin ·Stanley B. Zdonik, Michael Stonebraker, Mitch Cherniack, Uğur Çetintemel, Magdalena Bałazińska, Hari Balakrishnan
88

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